Crystal Amber (CRS) Competitors

Crystal Amber (LON:CRS) and AA (LON:AA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.

Is CRS or AA a better dividend stock?

Crystal Amber pays an annual dividend of GBX 50 per share and has a dividend yield of 42.2%. AA pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Crystal Amber pays out 29,411.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AA pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media favor CRS or AA?

In the previous week, AA had 2 more articles in the media than Crystal Amber. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for AA and 0 mentions for Crystal Amber. AA's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Crystal Amber's score of 0.34 indicating that AA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Crystal Amber	Neutral
AA	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CRS or AA?

AA received 319 more outperform votes than Crystal Amber when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.85% of users gave AA an outperform vote while only 56.58% of users gave Crystal Amber an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Crystal Amber	Outperform Votes 43 56.58%	Underperform Votes 33 43.42%
AA	Outperform Votes 362 77.85%	Underperform Votes 103 22.15%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CRS or AA?

Crystal Amber has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AA. AA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crystal Amber, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Crystal Amber	£12.26M	8.04	£14M	£0.17	697.06
AA	£982M	0.00	N/A	£11.70	N/A

Is CRS or AA more profitable?

Crystal Amber has a net margin of 114.19% compared to AA's net margin of 0.00%. Crystal Amber's return on equity of 12.30% beat AA's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crystal Amber	114.19%	12.30%	5.45%
AA	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do insiders & institutionals believe in CRS or AA?

80.3% of Crystal Amber shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Crystal Amber shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Crystal Amber and AA tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.